BMCR 2008.12.01

Books Received (November, 2008)

A l’école des anciens: Professeurs, élèves et étudiants. Précédé d’un entretien avec Jacqueline de Romilly. Signets. L’antiquité par ses textes; 4. Paris: Belles Lettres, 2008. 310 p. €13.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251030043.

Ambaglio, Dino, Franca Landucci Gattinoni and Luigi Bravi. Diodoro Siculo: Biblioteca storica: commento storico: introduzione generale. Storia. Ricerche. Milano: V&P, 2008. x, 145 p. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788834315842.

Avezzù, Guido (ed.). Didaskaliai II: Nuovi studi sulla tradizione e l’interpretazione del dramma attico. Verona: Edizioni Fiorini, 2008. ix, 466 p. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788887082760.

Baltussen, H. Philosophy and exegesis in Simplicius: the methodology of a commentator. London: Duckworth, 2008. xii, 292 p. £50.00. ISBN 9780715635001.

Battezzato, Luigi. Linguistica e retorica della tragedia greca. Sussidi Eruditi 78. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2008. xvi, 184 p. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788884985071.

Beale, Alan (ed.). Euripides talks. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2008. x, 139 p. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 9781853997129.

Bell, Sinclair and Inge Lyse Hansen (edd.). Role models in the Roman world: identity and assimilation. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary volume; 7. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. x, 316 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780472115891.

Bergeron, M. and R. Dufour (trans., comm.). Alexandre D’Aphrodise. De l’Âme. Textes & Commentaires. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2008. 416 p. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711619733.

Bonnet, Corinne, Sergio Ribichini and Dirk Steuernagel (edd.). Religioni in contatto nel Mediterraneo antico. Modalità di diffusione e processi di interferenza, Atti del 3 colloquio su , Loveno di Menaggio (Como), 26-28 maggio 2006. Mediterranea 4 – 2007. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 363 p. €1155.00 (pb). ISBN 18270506.

Brennan, T. Corey, T. Alan Broughton, Ryan C. Fowler, Andrew G. Scott and Kathleen J. Shea (edd.). Autobiography: ‘A scholar’s life by T. R. S. Broughton (1900-1993). American journal of ancient history, n.s. vol. 5 2006 [2008]. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2008. xvii, 310 p. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9781593338374.

Brisson, Luc. Le sexe incertain: androgynie et hermaphrodisme dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine (1st edition 1997). Vérité des Mythes. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. 182 p. €21.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251324456.

Brisson, Luc (ed.). Platon, Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Flammarion, 2008. xxi, 2204 p. €59.00. ISBN 9782081218109.

Calame, Claude. Sentiers transversaux: Entre poétiques grecques et politiques contemporaines. Collection Horos. Grenoble: Editions Jérôme Millon, 2008. 332 p. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782841372393.

Cancik, Hubert and Helmuth Schneider (edd.). Brill’s new Pauly: Antiquity, Volume 13, (Sas-Syl). Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. lvi p., 988 columns. $382.00. ISBN 9789004142183.

Castner, Catherine J. (ed., trans., comm.). Biondo Flavio’s Italia illustrata: text, translation, and commentary. Volume I: Northern Italy. Binghamton, NY: Global Academic Publishing, 2005. xxxvi, 385 $36.00 (pb). ISBN 9781586842550.

Cawthorn, Katrina. Becoming female: the male body in Greek tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2008. ix,188 p. £50.00. ISBN 9780715637128.

Cerri, Giovanni. La poetica di Platone: una teoria della comunicazione (Terza edizione aggiornata e ampliata di Platone sociologo della communicazione). Il vello d’oro 26. Lecce: Argo, 2007. 175 p. €14.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882343910.

Cerri, Giovanni. Dante e Omero: Il volto di Medusa. Il vello d’oro 24. Lecce: Argo, 2007. 156 p. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 978882343644.

Chaniotis, A., T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud and R.A. Tybout (edd.). Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume LIV (2004). Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. xxxiii, 916 p. $256.00. ISBN 9789004166875.

Chong-Gossard, J. H. Kim On. Gender and communication in Euripides’ plays: between song and silence. Mnemosyne: supplements; 296. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. 263 p. $142.00. ISBN 9789004168800.

Daverio Rocchi, Giovanna (ed.). Tra concordia e pace: parole e valori della Grecia antica: giornata di studio, Milano, 21 ottobre 2005. Quaderni di Acme; 92. Milano: Cisalpino, 2007. xxviii, 376 p. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788832360769.

Desanges, Jehan (ed., trans., comm.). Pline I’ Ancien, Histoire naturelle, livre VI 4e partie (L’Asie africaine sauf l’Égypte, les dimensions et les climats du monde habité). Collection des Universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. xlii, 327 p. €31.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014500.

Diez del Corral Corredoira, Pilar. Y Dioniso desposó a la rubia Ariadna: Estudio iconográfico de la cerámica ática (575-300 a. C.). BAR International Series 1719. Oxford: John and Erica Hedges, 2007. 392 p. £51.00 (pb). ISBN 9781407302027.

Dräger, Paul (ed., trans., comm.). Alkuin, Vita sancti Willibrordi; Das Leben des heiligen Willibrod. Trier: Kliomedia, 2008. 219 p. €24.90 (pb). ISBN 9783898901277.

Duhoux, Yves and Anna Morpurgo Davies (edd.). A companion to linear B: Mycenaean Greek texts and their world, Volume 1. Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l’Institut de linguistique de Louvain. Antiquité; 120. Louvain-la-Neuve; Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2008. x, 448 p. €55.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042918481.

Foley, John Miles (ed.). A companion to ancient epic (Paperback reprint of 2005 edition). Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xxiv, 664p. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9781405188388.

Forsen, Björn and Giovanni Salmeri (edd.). The province strikes back: imperial dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean. Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 13. Helsinki: Suomen Ateenan-instituutin säätiö, 2008. 214 p. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9789519880686.

Franco, Antonio. Periferia e frontiera nella Sicilia antica. Eventi, identityà a confronto e dinamiche antropiche nell’area centro-settentrionale fino al IV sec. a. C.. Supplementi a Kokalos 19. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 278 p. €245.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271035.

Giacobello, Federica. Larari pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Il filarete / Università degli studi di Milano, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia; 251. Milano: LED, 2008. 294 p. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788879163743.

Godwin, John. Reading Catullus. Greece and Rome live. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008. xii, 138 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781904675648.

Graves-Brown, Carolyn (ed.). Sex and gender in ancient Egypt: ‘don your wig for a joyful hour’. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2008. xxv, 220 p. $100.00. ISBN 9781905125241.

Greenspan, Daniel. The passion of infinity: Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the rebirth of tragedy. Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series, 19. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. x, 336 p. $141.00. ISBN 9783110203967.

Gritti, Elena. Proclo: dialettica, amima, esegesi. Il filarete / Università degli studi di Milano, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia; 257. Milano: LED, 2008. 419 p. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 9788879163859.

Hammer, Dean. Roman political thought and the modern theoretical imagination. Oklahoma series in classical culture; v. 34. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xiii, 358 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780806139272.

Heiden, Bruce. Homer’s cosmic fabrication: choice and design in the Iliad. American Philological Association, American classical studies 52. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 254 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780195341072.

Houghton, H. A. G. Augustine’s text of John: patristic citations and Latin Gospel manuscripts. Oxford early Christian studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. ix, 407 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780199545926.

Irvine, William B. A guide to the good life: the ancient art of Stoic joy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 314 p. $19.95. ISBN 9780195374612.

Jonge, Casper C. de. Between grammar and rhetoric: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on language, linguistics and literature. Mnemosyne, Supplements 301. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. xiii, 456 p. $192.00. ISBN 9789004166776.

Kerschner, Michael, Ireen Kowalleck and Martin Steskal. Archäologische Forschungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Ephesos in geometrischer, archaischer und klassischer Zeit: Grabungsbefunde und Keramikfunde aus dem Bereich von Koressos. Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien; Heft 9. Wien: Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, 2008. 192 p. €55.00 (pb). ISBN 9783900305499.

Kohl, Markus (ed.). Pergame: Histoire et archéologie d’un centre urbain depuis ses origines jusqu’à la fin de l’Antiquité. Halma – UMR 8142, XXIIIe Colloque International, Actes du 8-9 décembre 2000. Collection UL3. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille 3, 2008. 303 p. €18.50 (pb). ISBN 9782844671073.

Konishi, Haruo. Power and Structure in Thucydides: An analytical commentary, Volume One, The pre-war period – The first Year. Supplementi di Lexis 52. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2008. 492, xi p. €100.00 (pb). ISBN 9025612359.

Konstantakos, Ioannis M. Akicharos: He Diegese tou Achikar sten Archaia Hellada (2 vols.). Athens: Stigmi, 2008. 332; 424 p. ISBN 9789602066.

Lazzeri, Massimo. Studi sulla Gerioneide di Stesicoro. Quaderni del Dipartimento di scienze dell’antichità / Università degli studi di Salerno; 35. Napoli: Arte tipografica, 2008. 470 p. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 9788889776858.

Liveley, Genevieve and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell. Latin elegy and narratology: fragments of story. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. x, 285 p. ISBN 9780814204061.

Malamud, Margaret. Ancient Rome and modern America. Classical receptions. Malden, MA; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xi, 296 p. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9781405139342.

Marks, J. Zeus in the Odyssey. Hellenic Studies. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008. vii, 175 p. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674028128.

McGeer, Eric. Sowing the dragon’s teeth: Byzantine warfare in the tenth century (Reprint of 1995 edition). Dumbarton Oaks studies; 33. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2008. xx, 405 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780884022244.

Mehl, Véronique and Pierre Brulé (edd.). Le sacrifice antique: Vestiges, procédures et stratégies. Collection Histoire. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008. viii, 276 p. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753506688.

Miletti, Lorenzo. Linguaggio e metalinguaggio in Erodoto. AION 13. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 176 p. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271301.

Narcy, Michel and Alonso Tordesillas (edd.). Xénophon et Socrate: actes du colloque d’Aix-en-Provence (6-9 novembre 2003). Bibliothèque d’histoire de la philosophie. Nouvelle série. Paris: J. Vrin, 2008. 322 p. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711619870.

Nicastro, Nicholas. Circumference: Eratosthenes and the ancient quest to measure the globe. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008. xi, 223 p. $23.95. ISBN 9780312372477.

Nisbet, Gideon. Ancient Greece in film and popular culture. Greece and Rome live. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008. xiv, 188 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781904675785.

Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane. Retour à la source. Pausanias et la religion grecque. Kernos Suppléments 20. Liège: Centre international d’Étude de la religion Grecque Ancienne, 2008. 411 p. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 9782960071733.

Ramelli, Ilaria (ed.). Atti di Mar Mari. Testi del Vicino Oriente antico 7, Letteratura della Siria cristiana 2. Brescia: Paideia, 2008. 234 p. €25.80 (pb). ISBN 9788839407450.

Ramelli, Ilaria and David Konstan. Terms for eternity: aiônios and aïdios in classical and Christian texts. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007. viii, 257 p. $103.00. ISBN 9781593336943.

Rinon, Yoav. Homer and the dual model of the tragic. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 220 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780472116638.

Rogl, Christine. Die hellenistischen Reliefbecher aus Lousoi: Material aus den Grabungen im Bereich Phournoi (1983-1994). Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien; Heft 10. Wien: Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, 2008. 224 p. €62.70 (pb). ISBN 9783900305505.

Rosenberger, Veit (ed.). Die Ideale der Alten Antikerezeption um 1800. Friedenstein-Forschungen Bd. 3. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 199 p. €44.00. ISBN 9783515090001.

Rudhardt, Jean. Opera inedita: Essai sur la religion grecque & Recherches sur les Hymnes orphiques. Kernos Suppléments 19. Liège: Centre international d’Étude de la religion Grecque Ancienne, 2008. 346 p. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 9782960071726.

Russi, Roberto (ed.). Esilio. Quaderni di Synapsis: Atti della Scuola Europea di Studi Comparati, Pontignano, 18-25 settembre 2006. Firenze: Le Monnier, 2008. vi, 250 p. € 17.90 (pb). ISBN 9788800208390.

Russo, Alessandro (ed., trans., comm.). Quinto Ennio. Le opere minori, Vol. I. Praecepta, Protrepticus, Saturae, Scipio, Sota. Testi e studi di cultura classic 40. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2007. 299 p. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846718198.

Saïd, Suzanne. Approches de la mythologie grecque: Lectures anciennes et modernes. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. 168 p. € 17.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251443515.

Sannibale, Maurizio (ed.). La raccolta Giacinto Guglielmi, Parte II: Bronzi e materiali vari. Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Cataloghi, 4/2. Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2008. 374 p. $375.00 (PB). ISBN 978888265432X.

Schulz, Raimund. Kleine Geschichte des antiken Griechenland. Ditzingen: Philipp Reclam, 2008. 480 p. €19.90. ISBN 9783150106792.

Sedley, David (ed.). Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. Vol. 34, Summer 2008. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 423 p., [2] p. of plates. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199544899.

Sihler, Andrew L. New comparative grammar of Greek and Latin (Paperback reprint of 1995 edition). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxii, 686 p. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 9780195373363.

Smolenaars, Johannes J.L., Harm-Jan van Dam and Ruurd R. Nauta (edd.). The poetry of Statius. Mnemosyne, Supplementa 306. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. x, 269 p. $152.00. ISBN 9789004171343.

Takács, Sarolta A. The construction of authority in ancient Rome and Byzantium: the rhetoric of empire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxiii, 167 p. $80.00. ISBN 9780521878654.

Teppler, Yaakov Yanki. Birkat haMinim: Jews and Christians in conflict in the ancient world (translated by Susan Weingarten). Texts and studies in ancient Judaism; 120. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007. x, 413 p. €99.00. ISBN 9783161493508.

Timmer, Jan. Altersgrenzen politischer Partizipation in antiken Gesellschaften. Studien zur Alten Geschichte; Bd. 8. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2008. 416 p. €64.90. ISBN 9783938032190.

Tiverios, Michalis A. Perikleische Panathenäen: Ein Krater des Malers von München 2335. Gutenberg: Computus Druck Satz & Verlag, 2008. 154 p. €24.90 (pb). ISBN 9783940598004.

Tschemplik, Andrea. Knowledge and self-knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. ix, 183 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780739125731.

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. (ed.). Greek colonisation: an account of Greek colonies and other settlements overseas, Volume Two. Mnemosyne, Supplementa 193. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006. xviii, 566 p. $232.00. ISBN 9789004155763.

Verdan, Samuel, Anne Kenzelmann Pfyffer and Claude Léderrey. Céramique géométrique d’Erétrie. Eretria XX, Fouilles et recherches. Gollion: Ecole suisse d’archéologie en Grèce, 2008. 252 p. €65.00 (pb). ISBN 9782884744096.

Vial, Claude. Inscriptions de élos. Index, tome II: les Déliens. Paris: De Boccard, 2008. 150 p. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 9782877542029.

Wagner, Michael F. The enigmatic reality of time: Aristotle, Plotinus, and today. Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition v. 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. viii, 378 p. $190.00. ISBN 9789004170254.

Waxman, Sharon. Loot: the battle over the stolen treasures of the ancient world. New York: Times Books, 2008. xiv, 414 p., [8] p. of plates. $30.00. ISBN 9780805086539.

Wendt, Christian. Sine fine: die Entwicklung der römischen Aussenpolitik von der späten Republik bis in den frühen Prinzipat. Studien zur alten Geschichte; Bd. 9. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2008. 297 p. €49.90. ISBN 9783938032244.

Wersinger, Anne Gabrièle. La sphère et l’intervalle: Le schème de l’harmonie dans la pensée des anciens Grecs d’Homère à Platon. Horos. Grenoble: Millon, 2008. 379 p. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782841372300.

Wulfram, Hartmut. Das römische Versepistelbuch: eine Gattungsanalyse. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2008. 539 p. €69.90. ISBN 9783938032213.

Zacharia, Katerina (ed.). Hellenisms: culture, identity, and ethnicity from antiquity to modernity. Aldershot; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. xvi, 473 p. $99.95. ISBN 9780754665250.

Ziolkowski, Jan M. Solomon and Marcolf. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2008. xvii, 451 p. $40.00. ISBN 9780674028418.